Times Notices Conflicts Between Public Schools and Charters

The New York Times reports today that charter schools are sometimes in conflict with their public-school hosts, particularly as regards space, on which some P.S. personnel and parents think they get shafted: at Middle School 126 in Williamsburg, for example, access to the school library is granted to charter students "most of the day," while the school librarian "is expected to travel to individual classrooms to teach the public students library skills."

This is a rare perspective. Charter advocates point to the success rates of these private-public entities (though some dispute their conclusions), but usually don't much concern themselves with the students left out of them -- whether by parental abstention or because they've been "lotteried-out" -- even under charter-friendly administrations like New York's.